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Environmental litigation in China : a study in political ambivalence / Rachel E. Stern.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stern, Rachel E., author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies in law and society
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental law--China.
- Environmental law.
- Liability for environmental damages.
- Pollution--Law and legislation.
- China.
- Environmental law--Political aspects--China.
- Pollution--Law and legislation--China.
- Pollution.
- Liability for environmental damages--China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 300 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- This is a book about the improbable: seeking legal relief for pollution in contemporary China. In a country known for tight political control and ineffectual courts, Environmental Litigation in China unravels how everyday justice works: how judges make decisions, why lawyers take cases, and how international influence matters. It is a readable account of how the leadership's mixed signals and political ambivalence play out on the ground - propelling some, such as the village doctor who fought a chemical plant for more than a decade, even as others back away from risk. Yet this remarkable book shows that even in a country where expectations would be that law wouldn't much matter, environmental litigation provides a sliver of space for legal professionals to explore new roles and, in so doing, probe the boundary of what is politically possible.
- Contents:
- 1. Post-Mao: economic growth, environmental protection, and the law
- 2. From dispute to decision
- 3. Frontiers of environmental law
- 4. Political ambivalence: the state
- 5. On the frontlines: the judges
- 6. Heroes or troublemakers? The lawyers
- 7. Soft support: the international NGOs
- 8. Thinking about outcomes.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781139096614
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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